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Poster: ColdRain108 Date: Aug 10, 2016 10:32am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Dead and CO - WTF are you people hearing that I'm not?

This is easy to answer. The live show was a blast, listening to a recording was not.

It is not that great, it is just fun - finally. I thought Mayer was a jerk wagon jack ass - but that didn't color my appreciation of what he did on stage...and it surprised me how good it was.

I will say it is better than anything else I've seen post Jerry, miles better. I saw Warren really put his heart and soul into it once for about 5 minutes - then he went back to being the replacement Allman Brothers guy - zzzzz. Mayer is putting his all into it, with no regard to the old curmudgeons bitching and whining - that is the biggest difference between D&C and all the other incarnations - the half assed nature of the guitar player filling in for Jerry - they need to jump off the high wire w/o a net, really w/o the net, let it crash and burn once in a while as they try something they're pretty sure won't work, but if it does it will be grand- that to me is GD music. Not practiced and safe and well choreographed - that is what all the other R&R acts do and it is BORING!!!!!!!!!

D&C is most certainly not Grateful Dead, even the shows I saw in 93-95 kick the living shit out of this stuff...hell even the shows from my least favorite era (88-92) were better than D&C. That said I don't listen to any recordings past fall '83 except to investigate some faded memory.

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Poster: Diamondhead Date: Aug 10, 2016 2:31pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Dead and CO - WTF are you people hearing that I'm not?

Heck I just typed my comment before I saw yours. I think you and I said the same thing. I just ran off more. :) Do you still think Mayer is a jerk wagon jack ass? Or has he shifted? I sure didn't get any of that for the past 6 months with them. Also sort of curious as to how this affects his solo stuff now. Maybe he'll start a Mayer jam band. After all, how can you back from all the freedom he's just discovered?